Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Program
2005-2006
The Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Program is a Florida statewide reading motivation program for students in grades 3-8.  Students vote for their favorite book from a list of selected titles.

Winners:
 
Grades 3-5

Escaping the Giant Wave, by Peg Kehret

Grades 6-8

Heir Apparent, by Vivian Vande Velde

Reading List:

Grades 3-5

Andy Russell, Not Wanted by the Police, by David Adler

Escaping the Giant Wave, by Peg Kehret

Gooney Bird Greene, by Lois Lowry

Granny Torrelli Makes Soup, by Sharon Creech

Gregor the Overlander, by Suzanne Collins

How Tía Lola Came to (Visit) Stay, by Julia Alvarez

Ida B, by Katherine Hannigan

Lewis and Clark and Me, by Laurie Myers

Million Dollar Kick, by Dan Gutman

Once Upon a Marigold, by Jean Ferris

Owen Foote, Super Spy, by Stephanie Greene

Seaward Born, by Lea Wait

Trading Places with Tank Talbott, by Dori Hillestad Butler

The World According to Humphrey, by Betty Birney

The Young Man and the Sea, by Rodman Philbrick

Grades 6-8

Al Capone Does My Shirts, by Gennifer Choldenko

Chasing Vermeer, by Blue Balliett

Escaping the Giant Wave, by Peg Kehret

Granny Torrelli Makes Soup, by Sharon Creech

Gregor the Overlander, by Suzanne Collins

Halfway to the Sky, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Heir Apparent, by Vivian Vande Velde

How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found, by Sara Nickerson

Never Mind!, by Avi

Once Upon a Marigold, by Jean Ferris

One True Friend, by Joyce Hansen

Sahara Special, by Esmé Raji Codell

The Unseen, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

When My Name was Keoko, by Linda Sue Park

The Young Man and the Sea, by Rodman Philbrick

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